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The Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) meeting in Teheran on Sunday and Monday (10 & 11 June) set itself two new guidelines for the future -- extras determination to meet communist attempts at subversion, and increased economic cooperation within its region.

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The Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) meeting in Teheran on Sunday and Monday (10 & 11 June) set itself two new guidelines for the future -- extras determination to meet communist attempts at subversion, and increased economic cooperation within its region.

Foreign Minister's of CENTO's regional members, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan and their alliance partners Britain and the Untied States, announced their decisions after its 20th council meeting.

Pakistan was attending a CENTO council session at ministerial level for the first time in years, and it's renewed interest accompanied other indications of new life in the 18-year-old alliance.

The council opened with a personal message from the Shah of Iran, read by the Iranian Prime Minister, Amir Abbas Hoveida. In an apparent reference to Pakistan the Shah said "We have witnessed with profound shock and dismay how easily international boundaries are violated and sovereign states dismembered".